Simon Wallfisch
Baritone

Simon is a graduate of London’s Royal College of Music, the Hanns Eisler University of Music in Berlin and the Leipzig University of Music and Theater.   He was a member of the International Opera Studio of the Zurich Opera from 2009 to 2011.

 

As an internationally sought-after concert singer, he has appeared with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields and in London’s legendary Wigmore Hall, the Konzerthaus Berlin and the Laeiszhalle in Hamburg, among others. 

 

His recent engagements include being soloist in Reger's Einsiedler with the Berlin Chamber Philharmonic and the choir of the Junges Ensemble Berlin (conductor: Vinzenz Weissenburger) and in Carmina Burana for Choralspace (conductor: Sergi Gili Solé) both performances at the Berlin Philharmonie.   He has also appeared as a soloist with the BBC Singers at the Barbican Centre London. 

 

During 2023 he has made his debut at the Deutsche Oper Berlin as Fünfte Richter in Korngold’s Das Wunder der Heliane and also as Deputato Fiammingo in Don Carlo for the Royal Opera Covent Garden,  while other recent opera engagements include Fieramosca in Benvenuto Cellini at Staatstheater Nürnberg,  Marcello in La Boheme for Teatro Verdi Casciana Terme Pisa, Escamillo in La tragédie de Carmen for Nederlandse Reisopera and the title role in Pelléas et Mélisande and Albert in Werther for English Touring Opera.  

 

His numerous CD releases include Songs by Geoffrey Bush (Lyrita Records 2015), Songs by Caplet, Honegger, Milhaud and Ravel (Nimbus Records, 2017), Gesänge des Orients (Nimbus, 2018), Lieder by Thea Musgrave (Lyrita, 2019), Songs by Robin Holloway (Delphian Records, 2019), Brahms Lieder (Resonus Classics, 2020), Schumann Lieder (Resonus, 2019) and Kowalski Songs (Nimbus, 2021).

 

Simon has been living in Berlin with his family since 2020.

 

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